![]() ![]() Williams’ new interest coincided with a vampire renaissance in pop culture. “I think I have 30 left,” Williams said, “and I’m getting down to, you know, Fright Night 2.” It was while Williams was teaching Bram Stoker’s Dracula in one of her first courses at Calvin that a student in her class told her about a list of the top 70 vampire movies of all time and challenged her to watch them. Her dissertation addressed the influence of religion in modernist thought. Deconstruction and the midnight movieĪt the University of California-Irvine where Williams earned her doctorate, she read Hegel with her friends on Friday nights and mused on theological questions with J. ![]() Yet it was only when she came to Calvin in 2005 that Williams became seriously interested in the vampire mythos. “People seem to think I was born loving vampires,” said English professor Jennifer Williams.
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